Notes

1] Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, long-time chief minister of Henry VIII, cast down by the king for failing to arrange a divorce from Katherine of Aragon that would allow the king to marry Anne Boleyn. Wolsey's dog, called Urian, supposedly bit the Pope's toe when Wolsey begged him to support the king's request. In fact, Wolsey never went to Rome, and Foxe's book of martyrs attributes the bite to the spaniel of Anne Boleyn's father. Back to Line